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During a wedding ceremony in the Greek Orthodox church, does the couple receive Communion? If so, how does this work with a non-Greek Orthodox individual, for exampe a Catholic marrying a GO in the GO church?

During a wedding ceremony in the Greek Orthodox church, does the couple receive Communion? If so, how does this work with a non-Greek Orthodox individual, for exampe a Catholic marrying a GO in the GO church?

Not usually. They do drink wine, which is a vestige of the orginal communion. The non-Orthodox do not take communion, but do drink the wine.

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During a wedding ceremony in the Greek Orthodox church, does the couple receive Communion? If so, how does this work with a non-Greek Orthodox individual, for exampe a Catholic marrying a GO in the GO church?

Holy Communion will not be received at the marriage ceremony in >99.99% of the cases; that <0.01% involves (a) special permission from the hierarch, AND (b) that the marriage be done in the context of the Divine Liturgy, AND (c) both parties are Orthodox.

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During a wedding ceremony in the Greek Orthodox church, does the couple receive Communion? If so, how does this work with a non-Greek Orthodox individual, for exampe a Catholic marrying a GO in the GO church?

No, however, at some parishes, the psalm verse "I will take the cup of salvation..." Is chanted which is regularly chanted during communion in feasts of the Theotokos.

That's only if your priest doesn't go on and on making the same point 19 times over during his homily.

Not necessarily. I've been to Greek weddings where the priest and chanters turn on the speed chant and blitz the service in half an hour flat, including a homily that lasts no longer than a minute and a half.

To tell the truth, I've never been to Orthodox wedding (neither Serbian nor Polish), because it was too complicated to us to get to Serbian for a weddings of my family members. However, one of my acquaintances once has been to an Orthodox wedding in Poland and in her opinion it was quite long service (well, maybe 1 hour for her is long, but for RC in Poland it's normal). So I would be a bit shocked (and disappointed ) that Orthodox wedding is so short. Hope in my case (when I find a proper man to be my husband) it's done without any shortening Well, actually, if it was done during the Liturgy, as it used to be in some old times, it wouldn't be so short, so that's an explanation that this service is relatively short comparing with other Orthodox services...

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On the topic of Greek weddings. Are there any standard abbreviations or additions in Greek practice, or is it done 'by the book'? I've been to a few, including my own, but am not familiar enough with the text to know how they compare in practice.

On the topic of Greek weddings. Are there any standard abbreviations or additions in Greek practice, or is it done 'by the book'? I've been to a few, including my own, but am not familiar enough with the text to know how they compare in practice.

I've been to dozens of Greek and Slavic weddings in my time, and all have been done "by the book". The differences in time taken were simply due to the speed of the chanting/singing.